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When the four police detectives arrived at the woman’s door, they had a list of names they wanted to ask about. They also had a cell phone number they wanted to identify. But they did not have a warrant.

The homeowner didn’t know the names; her daughter didn’t either. But the daughter did recognize the cell number as belonging to an old phone of hers. So the cops asked to search the house.

“When the woman refused because the police did not have a search warrant,” reads a report, “the detective called his supervisor. After reaching his supervisor, the detective told the complainant that he was ordered to conduct a ‘walk through’ of the house. The detectives searched the entire house, believing that an order from their supervisor and knowing that the daughter’s old cell phone number was being used by questionable individuals justified a warrantless search of the complainant’s home.”

The report was one of two policy studies issued in 2013 by the Washington, D.C. Office of Police Complaints, the head of which—Philip Eure—was just named to be New York City’s first NYPD inspector general.

You can read more at thenation.com about Eure’s appointment and what it means for the city..